sport
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sport sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3ports, strop
- One letter away
- 7short, snort
What it means
- nounan active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- nounthe occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- noun(Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p ao1 r t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abort
- airport
- cavort
- consort
- contort
- court
- deport
- distort
- escort
- exhort
- extort
- fort
- import
- passport
- port
- purport
- quart
- report
- resort
- retort
- seaport
- short
- snort
- sort
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: ports, strop, prost.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.